Punjab Kings are widely regarded as a team that makes biscuits out of high scores! 264 runs that looked huge apparently were chased down by the Punjab Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium against the Delhi Capitals, as they won by 6 wickets with 7 balls to spare. Notably, Punjab Kings made a record chase, beating their own previous record of chasing down 262 against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024, while Shreyas led the purple side at the Eden Gardens. Highest Successful Run Chases in IPL History Rank Team target Opponent Year 1 PBKS 265 DC 2026 2 PBKS 262 KKR 2024 3 SRH 246 PBKS 2025 4 RCB 228 LSG 2025 5 RR 224 PBKS 2020 KL Rahul stormed DC to 264 runs Winning the toss, the Delhi Capitals captain, Axar Patel, expressed that his plan is to put a huge score on the board. And KL Rahul did not disappoint his captain. Shashank Singh, who is having a terrible time on the field, just helped Rahul to add a few feathers to his name. Shash dropped KL's easy catch at the boundary when he was batting at 12 runs. Arshdeep Singh, even though he got Pathum Nissanka (11) in the ball after that, KL went on to score 152 runs, becoming the first Indian to score so. Well, Vijaykumar Vyshak too dropped KL at 51 off his own ball. KL's innings featured 16 boundaries and 9 maximus. Nitish Rana, the local boy of Delhi, gave him the right support. He was just 9 runs short of a well-deserved century. Nitish stood tall for a 220-run record partnership, smashed 11 fours and four sixes. For Punjab, Xavier Bartlett was the only one to get a wicket apart from Arshdeep Singh, whiel there has not been a remarkable bowling performance from the side. Reaf also: Lungi Ngidi suffered fatal blow on head attempting for a catch, carried away with an ambulance Sarpanch leads from the front Shashank dropping KL's catch probably got neutralized after the substitute fielder Karun Nair. He took a stunner to dismiss Nehal Wadher (25) off Vipraj Nigam, but soon dropped Shreyas Iyer. The very next over of Kuldeep Yadav he dropped him again, and it proved costly for DC. Earlier, Punjab had their base made steady. Their openers, Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh did their usual, put a partnership of 126 runs before Axar dismissed him in the 7th over. The Delhi boy scored 43 runs under his name, Prabh has been the aggressor, smashing 76 runs off 26 balls. After their dismissal, it was Shreyas Iyer all alone while witnessing the fall of Cooper Connolly and Nehal. He started slow, initially ducking the ball, scoring just 18 runs off his first 15 balls. He rotated his strike with Nehal, allowing him to take the strikes, while he himself tackled the DC spinners, adding 48 runs together. His intent got questioned twice due to Karun's dropped catch, but it was then he finally started hitting. Shreyas went from 38 runs (off 25 balls) to 71 (off 36 balls)*. That’s 33 runs in his final 11 deliveries—a strike rate of 300 at the death. Meanwhile, DC bowlers struggled for control as Mukesh Kumar (55 in 3 overs) and Auqib Nabi (41 in 2 overs) leaked heavily, while Kuldeep Yadav (2/46) stood out with key breakthroughs.